Friday, June 11, 2010

I do think of these things, you know...

"Well?" Srivan Irshan, agent of Emir Shirow sat in the small ramshackle hut that served as a bar in Basal's Undercity. He sipped on whatever moonshine the proprietor had poured into his cup, his eyes studying the faces of his two men, peeking over the rim.

"They got out," Igor nodded, "tough bastards, them. We fought us some tunnel rats."

Atuk coughed.

"Skavarans?" Irshan set his cup down, frowning.

"Yessir, a recon team. They got them all though. Messy, but they walked away from it," Igor smiled, "no survivors."

"Good. At least that tunnel is still intact," Srivan spat, handing the two men some coins, "enjoy."

He watched them scurry off like sewer rats, and pulled out a datapad. Srivan stood, wobbled, and then trundled towards the entrance to the Emirate palace, composing a message:

EMIR:
AGENTS DEPLOYED TO OKAVANGO.
MEM COMPASS VIRUS ENABLED VIA SUPPLIER.
OUR FRIENDS WILL HAVE TO FIND THEIR OWN WAY HOME.

IF THEY SUCCEED.

-S.

5 comments :

Game Thug said...

I think you think of these things after we mention them. :P

Julie doesn't get to make a test for Maia?

Julie said...

I'm of two minds on this one. Maia almost certainly runs a routine diagnostic / virus scan on any new piece of technology that passes through her hands. That said, whoever implanted the virus (likely Irshan) probably assumed that and designed the virus to avoid a routine scan. And Maia didn't have any reason to do anything more than a routine scan on a straight-out-of-the-box, pristine new piece of hardware. So if it was designed to be dormant and hard to detect, and if Josh wants this to be "just one of those things" for story purposes, I'm willing to go along with it. (On the other hand, I think a particularly good Info Warfare or Computers roll or whatever might nonetheless turn it up.)

Anyway, I leave it in Josh's hands. I'll go with GM ruling on this one.

Heavy Josh said...

I think that I've come to know you guys well enough to anticipate this one, thanks very much. Once in a while I do get to cackle maniacally, and this was one of those times.

A *routine* diagnostic wouldn't pick this up, sorry.

Anyways, Julie, expect a basic rundown of the ECM rules in the mail.

Game Thug said...

Might as well copy the whole gang on that.

And just to be clear--some mystery virus erased all Maia's footage of the route in and out?

Heavy Josh said...

Maia's VR rig has some questionable footage of the trip, though with some holes in it from the effects of flash-bang grenades and the fact that she's not a professional trideographer.

Could you reconstruct a full route? Probably not, but it's better than nothing. And yes, you do have the last 3 hours or so of the journey, backwards, from the tunnel fighters' map.


 
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